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Retired Cuban Engineer Builds His Own Wooden Plane
Adolfo Rivera, a retired Cuban mechanical engineer, ingeniously and austerely builds a wooden aeroplane in his building s small garage.
Adolfo Rivera, a retired Cuban mechanical engineer, ingeniously and austerely builds a wooden aeroplane in his building s small garage.
During the last eight years, screw by screw, using Cuban wood and with the contribution of his children who cooperate with glues and tools from abroad, Rivera, a 70-year-old mechanical engineer, manufactured his winged dream: a single-engine wooden two-seater aeroplane.
Neither the economic deficiencies of Cuba, where it is difficult to acquire steel cables, wheels or the waterproofing liquid for the wings or the bureaucratic procedures or prejudices from government offices, could stop his efforts.